Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-01 | Page 4 | Armed Intervention Urged

Buy .. Wti ARMED INTERVENTION URGED. j 1 1 Lf the congress of Hie 1,'nited StattiS :a0ls favorably on the rec- 1 onuhcndhti'ons of the foreign relations sub-committee investigating 1 Mexican affairs, this country will have a big" contract to fulfill. jj .rmdd intervention is proposed, if Mexico docs not do any one jj; . of half a dozen things, including the establishing of a stnblo .gov- wn ornment. the changing of religious restrictions and' the -suppressing II j of comment by religious periodicals. , J j n America is to send a Vp''0 force, consisting of the naval and W I t military forces of our government, into the republic of Mexico to J j J open", and maintain open, every line of communication between th lft -City of Mexico and every seaport and every border port of Mexico. '1; ' Quite a big job. The whole program comes from Senator A. B. I Iill, one of the fire-eaters of the border who for ten years has been i jumping up and down in nervous passion, demanding an invasion of Mexico. He has been well supported by .William Hearst, whose l J influential papers have urged the necessity of inflicting deep woundii V on Mexico. I If Mexico we're a powerful country, and if liiaf government had I the resources at its cummand to crush the bandits and would noc Ipyg move in that direction, and if Mexico were other than torn and H bleeding .at every point, generous, mighty America might proceed 1 ' to do. as Senator Fall and his subcommittccuecommend. I i ' Once America enters Mexico to police the entire country, there If ' I can be no retracing of our steps. Tim invasion must end in nothing Ik i ji less than aggrandizement a "policy which would discredit all our H ' professions of desiring to live and lot live. H There is no doubt t'he Americans along the northern border of H Mexico have suffered severely from the Mexicans. The brigands H have made repeated raids, destroying lives and property, but the H ; government of Mexico, such as it has been, has made no attacks. H The outlaws of northern Mexico are much in need of a stinging H j1 chastisement and it might be well for the United plates, following V the hot trails, to freely send troops over t'he border to shoot ami T kill until the bandits are reduced to a harmless condition, but to go into Mexico on a mission of cleaning every Mexican's back yard Hp and establishing a peace free from brigandage would be an endless H and a most uncertain task. The Mexican snipers are capable of liv- H ing in the wilds of Mexico. They could keep up guerrilla warfan; j over a long period and complete peace would prevail only after ( much of Mexico had been reduced to a wilderness. , An American army officer -who has been on the border informs - the Standard-Examiner that all the Carranza commanders were most Hp .friendly and earnestly desired that Mexico gain the confidence of ! "this country, but their forces'were not strong enough to whip down the robber bands that regularly made raids. '. Before the Tnited States follows the leajfVof Senator Fall, serious thought should be given to the sacrifices to be made. Has strug- i ; gling Mexico, in all her squalor and misery, so touched our pride that, j we deem-it imperative to prove to the peons we are their superiors i j and shall be their masters?